Courses

Felony Defender Training

This course is co-sponsored by the UNC School of Government and the Office of Indigent Defense Services.

Topics will include discovery and investigation, suppression and other superior court motions, lab reports, preserving the record, sentencing, and trial skills—including conducting voir dire—necessary to handle felony cases from start...

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Top 10 Primer: What Local Elected Officials Need to Know about Public Health and Social Services

This is a free online course from 10–11:15 AM on October 19, 2022.

Being an effective local elected official requires a basic understanding of what your local government agencies do. The public health and social services agencies are two public agencies that are touch points for many of the people in your communities. Their services...

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LELA 201: Bridging Divides: Techniques for Productive Governing

This course has been canceled.

Elected officials today must navigate a host of diverse political perspectives when confronting challenges in their communities. To foster productive conversations and create policy solutions to local issues, they must learn to find commonalities amongst differences of opinion with their neighbors, build a...

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Building and Maintaining a Competitive Workforce

This course can be offered on demand via a request from your jurisidiction. Please contact lydian@sog.unc.edu if you are interested in this option.

The impending exodus of baby boomers from the nation’s workforce, coupled with the increasing competencies and skills required of public-sector employees...

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Performance Management in Animal Services

This class is part of the Performance Management Course Series. To see the full list of courses offered please click HERE

This course has been approved for Continuing Educational Units by the National Animal Care & Control Association (NACA). National certificate holders can submit for credit consistent with the NACA...

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National Certified Government Chief Information Officer (CGCIO)

After 20 successful years of offering the Certified Government Chief Information Officers’ (CGCIO) program to elevate IT leadership across NC and beyond, we are taking a pause to review the curriculum, upgrade the content, and assess the various ways we can most effectively deliver the CGCIO program to IT leaders. We anticipate the...

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Performance Management in Fire Service

This class is part of the Performance Management Course Series. To see the full list of courses offered please click HERE

This course will take place online via Zoom from 1pm - 5pm and will include around 4 hours...

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Compensated Absences Webinar

GASB Statement No. 101, Compensated Absences, will be implemented by North Carolina governments for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025. While this may seem to be in the distant future, governments need to begin compiling information and beginning balances by July 1, 2024. This webinar will provide participants with the following:

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Child Support Enforcement

This program provides training for attorneys who represent alleged contemnors in child support enforcement proceedings. Sessions will focus on civil contempt, advocacy in-and-out of the courtroom, evidence, and other issues relevant to respondent representation.

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Advanced Americans with Disabilities Act Course

The Advanced Americans with Disabilities Act class is an intensive, two-day program taking an in-depth look at ADA issues of particular concern to government and community college employers. The class is limited to 65.

Prerequisite: You must have completed Introduction...

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Lead Across Boundaries

It is open to both professional and elected officials.

Many, if not most, of the complex issues in the public sector are not neatly contained within the purview of one organization. Just as we have seen with the response to the Hurricane Helene disaster, no one person, organization, or sector has all the ability,...

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Advanced Leadership Corps Ambassador Program

Annual Leadership Training and Reunion for ALC Alumni

September 11-12, 2025

Our program will focus on values-based communications and best practices for strategizing, creating, and delivering your message to constituents and other audiences. Our instructor is Chris Lundberg, UNC Associate Professor and...

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2024 New Clerks Institute On Demand

This is a one-day On Demand crash course on subjects vital to the work of clerks to municipal and county governing boards.
Topics covered include the open meetings law, the public records law, meeting agendas and minutes, public notices, oaths of office, and board procedure fundamentals.

Agenda is located on the "Materials"...

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Fundamental Supervisory Practices: Tier One Counties

This offering of Fundamental Supervisory Practices is sponsored by the Golden LEAF Foundation. Enrollment is reserved for Participants from Qualifying Counties.

Thanks to generous support from the Golden LEAF Foundation, this session of Fundamental Supervisory Practices is offered specifically for participants from local governments...

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Performance Measurement in Local Government

This one-day workshop helps public officials design measures in local government for accountability and results. The workshop introduces the types of performance measures commonly found in local government, how to develop good measures from goals and objectives, and how they can be used to support other management processes.

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Drafting Orders for Clerks

This course is offered through the UNC School of Government North Carolina Judicial College and is available to both clerks and assistant clerks of superior court. It is intended for clerks and assistant clerks who have some experience presiding over hearings. It will cover issues related to drafting orders where the clerk is the...

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Post-Conviction Proceedings for Superior Court Judges

This course is designed to help judges effectively rule on issues that arise after conviction in a criminal case. It is a small-group, skills-based training in which judges will actively participate. Coverage includes: Procedural issues related to motions for appropriate relief; substantive claims such as ineffective assistance of counsel and...

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Performance Management in Information Technology

This class is part of the Performance Management Course Series. To see the full list of courses offered please click HERE

This course will take place online via Zoom from 9am - 2pm and will include around ...

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Higher-Level Felony Defense, Part II

This is part two of our program for attorneys interested in handling higher level felony cases at the trial level. The focus of the training will be on two important aspects of this work: defense trial strategies in serious felony cases and sentencing advocacy. Specific topics will include defending forcible felonies, eyewitness identification...

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Legitimation under North Carolina Law

This session will provide an introduction to legitimation – what is it, how is a child is legitimated under North Carolina Law, and why does it matter. The primary focus of the session is to review the provisions of the law and the role of the clerk in these special proceedings. Topics to be addressed include who can file, when and where is the...